28 Quotations by Jeremy Taylor
- 1. A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, ...
- 2. Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of ...
- 3. Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- 4. Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
- 5. Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
- 6. God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of al ...
- 7. Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after he ...
- 8. He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more g ...
- 9. He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
- 10. He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa ...
- 11. It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it ...
- 12. Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
- 13. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- 14. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- 15. Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
- 16. No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance ...
- 17. No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance ...
- 18. No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire mo ...
- 19. No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire mo ...
- 20. Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulan ...
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